NUKnightLab / NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3
allow for manually created mailto links
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Enhancement
Feature Proposal
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 3.2k
- Forks
- 645
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Description
Timeline will correctly create a mailto link from an email address in the text. However, HTML sanitization prevents the user from manually entering a mailto link with arbitrary link text.
Requested feature is to allow for tags in the text field which contain a mailto href
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the HTML sanitization applied to the text field and trace how existing email addresses become mailto links. Update the relevant behavior so manually entered a tags with mailto hrefs and arbitrary link text are allowed, then verify that the requested links survive sanitization.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100